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Windows is not a UNIX or UNIX-like operating system, so there are extra steps to interfacing a Windows computer with our servers. | Windows is not a UNIX or UNIX-like operating system, so there are extra steps to interfacing a Windows computer with our servers. | ||
* The preferred option is to [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 install Ubuntu subsystem for Windows on Windows 10]. Since this is Windows 10-only, we encourage students who want to use Windows to run Windows 10 rather than an earlier version. | You have a few options for software to enable this kind of connection. | ||
* The strongly preferred option is to [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 install Ubuntu subsystem for Windows on Windows 10]. Since this is Windows 10-only, we encourage students who want to use Windows to run Windows 10 rather than an earlier version. | |||
* MobaXterm and [https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html Putty] are other options. | * MobaXterm and [https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html Putty] are other options. | ||
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Some quirks of interfacing Windows with Linux: | |||
* It's common for a Linux operating system to appear to mount the main Windows filesystem under /drives, usually /drives/c/, and within /drives/c directories and filenames observe such Windows conventions as capitalizing (e.g.) "Users" and "Documents". | |||
* If you're in a Linux environment, the Windows "\" becomes a Linux "/". | |||
Revision as of 20:08, 29 January 2019
Windows is not a UNIX or UNIX-like operating system, so there are extra steps to interfacing a Windows computer with our servers.
You have a few options for software to enable this kind of connection.
- The strongly preferred option is to install Ubuntu subsystem for Windows on Windows 10. Since this is Windows 10-only, we encourage students who want to use Windows to run Windows 10 rather than an earlier version.
- MobaXterm and Putty are other options.
Some quirks of interfacing Windows with Linux:
- It's common for a Linux operating system to appear to mount the main Windows filesystem under /drives, usually /drives/c/, and within /drives/c directories and filenames observe such Windows conventions as capitalizing (e.g.) "Users" and "Documents".
- If you're in a Linux environment, the Windows "\" becomes a Linux "/".